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In the WWII invasion of Normandy, an error in paperwork occurred, causing a supply clerk to get sent to the front lines as a paratrooper. He had never been trained to jump, but just followed the lead of the other paratroopers. He somehow managed to survive, and when asked about it later, he replied "The US Army said I was airborne qualified, and I wasn't going to question it."
Edit: I was told this story at a leadership academy by a Marine 1st sergeant who was making an inspirational speech, and so after some research, it turns out to have been almost completely embellished. This is what actually happened: in 2000, Army specialist Jeff Lewis was sent to Fort Bragg on a parachute jump with no training save for a one day refresher course. Despite stepping out of the plane on the wrong foot and twisting his gear up, he managed to make the jump safely.
It's also worth noting that though this specific instance occurred recently, according to Wikipedia, there were more aircraft than qualified men for D-Day, and so quite a few of the paratroopers there were not very well trained.
He switched parties after he was elected governor of Louisiana. The people voted for a democrat, then he became a republican. Buddy Roemer campaigned on making education a priority, then he spent most of his time bringing in video poker to the state instead. Louisiana had the only gambling deal in the nation at the time with no specific money earmarked to stuff like education. Roemer was so bad he ended up losing to one of the most corrupt politicians in modern history, Edwin Edwards (who just recently got out of prison) and David Duke, ex-KKK neo-nazi white supremecist. Yes that's right, Buddy Roemer couldn't even get in a runoff against a KKK imperial grand wizard as an incumbant seeking re-election!
In all likelihood, his anti-PAC, tiny-contributor stance is merely circumstantial. He has sold out so many times he has no real allies on either side and nobody wants to give him money, so he's repackaged that as some kind of idealistic stance.
Here in Louisiana, whenever I see some old lady pouring her money into those annoying video poker machines, I think of Roemer. That's his legacy. And we still have one of the shittiest educational systems in the nation. I worked on his campaign because I respected his desire to want to make education a priority. That turned out to be a sham.
Edit: Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Roemer
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TjQdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5904,3378123
What's really scary is according to the family's attorney the family warned police weeks ago about Elliot's behavior.
EDIT: From an NPR article: "Shifman said that his parents were concerned a few weeks ago after watching a few YouTube videos "regarding suicide and the killing of people." Shifman said Rodger had "multiple therapists" and a social worker was concerned enough last week that she called police.
Authorities, however, interviewed him and concluded he was a "perfectly polite, kind and wonderful human."'
I'm sorry, but in the past where things like this have happened, and we're all "Oh why didn't this person or that person do something/say something" and here everyone involved knows something is up, why was nothing done?!?!?
EDIT 2: Thanks for your responses guys. I guess it's just frustrating after a big event like this. You feel so helpless. And the fact that so many men have this mentality on Reddit and the internet in general scares me.
Yep, that's why most of their flags are made for 25¢/hour by the hard-working men and women of the US prison system. Because nothing says freedom like slave labor for minor drug offenses.
A freshman was murdered by her brother, who was a junior and in one of my classes. An acquaintance of mine who was friends with him helped bury the body. That was freaky.
Edit2: She was an 8th grader, not a freshman.
Edit3: Follow up article. /http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19880308&id=ko9TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=o4YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6857,6604818
>The National Organization for Women, although opposing the draft, argues that women should be included if selective service continues.
>The Supreme Court will decide whether the male-only draft registration program is legal and NOW President Eleanor Smeal said her group would file papers with the court today.
>…
>The male-only system “disservices society as it creates a pool of eligibles much more limited in numbers and ability than if it included women,” Ms. Smeal said.
Just FYI. Feminists have historically been against the draft, but if there must be a draft, against excluding women.
I had a coworker who actually died this way. Two teenagers dropped a 60 pound (27kg) rock off an overpass through her windshield.
They even hung around when the rescuers arrived to jeer at them.
WTF... I hadn't thought about it in years.
Edit: Since this blew up a bit... Here and here are a couple of articles from when it happened. Her name was Susan, and she was 27 when she was killed.
I have, and I know some national feminist organizations who have asked for it. They generally opposed the draft overall, but if it existed they thought women should be called too.
Edit: Here's some sources:
and a newspaper article confirming their opposition to a male only draft
This story is propaganda - the idea that anyone would actually surrender an entire island to an Air Force Sergeant is patently ridiculous.
The surrender was not, as the article implies with obvious relish, some act of grandiose cowardice on the part of the Italians; Mussolini had given the garrison his permission to surrender because it lacked clean water, and the invasion of Sicily was imminent. The island was actually secured, without resistance, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Lookout and ninety-five men of the 2^nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards. Neither the garrison nor the island actually surrendered to Cohen, who lacked authority; the formal surrender was offered by the island's Governor to combined Army/Navy delegation, and accepted by a Coldstream company commander, Major Bill Harris.
Edit - whoever you are, thanks very much.
Personal Conspiracy Theory - My dad was a cop that was killed in the line of duty in 1997. He was shot while serving a search warrant on one Ezra George Peterson. Peterson opened fire through the door, killing my father and wounding a few other officers. At the time of the shooting, Peterson should have still been in jail in California. The only reason that made any sense for him being out was if he was an FBI informant.
After Peterson is convicted and sent off to death row, he hangs himself in jail.
Now here is the conspiracy portion. The death certificate for Peterson had a few errors on it, so my mom made a few phone calls. None of the people that were working that night at the jail could be tracked down. The guy in the cell next to Peterson said he heard Peterson bragging that he would be out soon. The funeral home that handled bodies from the jail doesn't recall ever getting an older white guy with one leg (one of his legs was shot off when he was arrested).
Now the conspiracy/non-logical part of my brain tells me that the FBI have somehow gotten him out of jail. The logical part of me knows that it is all coincidence and just wouldn't happen, but it is really hard for me to let go of these doubts.
Update: Decent article of the shooting
Update 2: About Ezra's wounds and a timeline of his crimes
Update 3: Ezra's suicide
Doesn't work. There was a giant infestation in the late 70's in Schenectady, NY, here is the only reference I can find to it:
> In 1979, the police in Schenectady, N.Y., responded to a complaint about a barking dog. When they arrived, however, they found cockroaches streaming from the windows of a two-family home, raining down from trees and darting into the street. Inside, roaches had plastered every wall like stucco and had left bites all over a 64-year-old woman and her 24 dogs, which, it turned out, had been barking for good reason. The swarm comprised approximately one million German cockroaches, perhaps the largest household infestation ever recorded.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/magazine/25PHENOM.html
They combated that infestation by ~~burning~~ the house.... Once the house was set on fire, the roaches blanketed the neighborhood. Unfortunately, I have been unsuccessful in finding any video of the incident.
EDIT: She not only had 24 dogs, but also had 22 cats. I was told they burned the house, but my research just says it was demolished.... Still pretty fucked....
This is a good read: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19840926&id=5BIhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LnQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3264,2371037
"If this was a 29-year-old male and a 17-year-old female, I would be inclined to order some incarceration,"
Is that quote real? Is that even legal to say for a judge?
edit:
It seems that the quote is not 'true' in the sense that the content of the quote on its own does not reflect the idea of the quote in context. The judge himself was asking why this case was any different from the same situation with the genders reversed.
www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/145np6/so_this_is_equality/c7a6ndo
i are pant correctly responds, in my opinion, 'But girls lie about their age all the time, and the guy still gets in trouble...'
http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/145np6/so_this_is_equality/c7a722t
Robert Robinson is a pretty interesting example. He was a black autoworker at Ford who was offered a contract to come work in the Soviet Union in 1930 where they desperately needed skilled workers for their rapid industrialization. He re-upped his contract several times and earned a degree in mechanical engineering in Russia. After the war he was repeatedly denied an exit visa until 1974 when he was allowed to move to Uganda. Finally in 1980 he was able to move back to the United States. He offers a pretty nuanced account as he rose to heights professionally that he never would have been able to in the United States at that time while also having a front row seat to Stalin's purges and living through years of a different kind of oppression in the Soviet Union.
Here's a short newspaper blurb about his life: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wChUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mo0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6545%2C179684
and his autobiography is called "Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union"
Except it's not "unions", it's "unions in situations where the people represented by the union hold all the negotiating power".
In a situation where you can't form a union because your company will fire literally anyone trying it, and have enough money to replace every single employee twice, there's an imbalance of power that can easily be abused.
In a situation where you literally must cave to every demand the union makes because you have nothing to negotiate with and can not risk a police strike or previous negotiations have been so lackluster that they already hold all the power (because hero worship, etc), there's an imbalance of power that can easily be abused.
Unions are perfect when there's similar levels of power between the union and the group the union generally negotiate with. Unions are supposed to exist in situations where there are actual rights that need protecting, and people who would actually take away those rights given the chance.
Police unions exist to protect a group who are already supported by the people the union negotiates with. Until there's some actual adversarial negotiations with police unions, police unions will continue to hold all the power and their members will continue to be immune to consequences of their own actions.
This is funny. If you walk into a random internet café in Turkey, you're almost guaranteed to find some ten-something boys playing various GTA games, and yet it is Minecraft that gets shafted? I'm not saying GTA should be banned, obviously; it just goes to show how out of touch with reality Turkish officials are. I'm fairly certain they decided to ban Minecraft on a whim, without conducting a proper investigation.
I don't recall any other game getting banned in Turkey, but I remember that the Pokémon anime was banned over a decade ago. Two kids who believed themselves to be Pidgeotto jumped off the balcony, breaking their legs and robbing an entire generation of children of Pokémon.
They could've at least pretended to be Charizard. Pidgeotto? Really?
Wait, credit cards? How old (or new) is this sign? Makes me think it's a joke of some sort.
Edit: Huh, the sign is mentioned in a 1973 newspaper column.
A retrospective from a year later
EDIT: Sheriff quit his job with young family in mind. Tells media that beer was involved in the couple's decision to make a tape and that a company reportedly told them that they could have made up to half a million if they sold it. Evidently, they didn't.
> NO MAJOR NEWS COVERAGE
You obviously didn't look very hard. HuffPo, Reuters, AP, ABC News... are you stupid or did you just want an inflammatory headline? Google has 1,767 articles about it (as of around 5:30pm).
Black people don't like the water because it not only messes up their hair but extremely dries out our skin. Also there is a negative connotation associated with swimming. During segregation black swimming pools were available but people used lye, other chemicals, and violence (incl. drowning) to deter African Americans from using pools.
Given the above, a long with socioeconomic status, it is not merely the act of going to swimming lessons but a history of being denied access to swimming that makes up this demographic.
I had a class during my undergrad about the ethics of using robots to police people and prosecute wars. The earliest instance I could find for my paper in that class of police using a robot against a barricaded person in 1993. Police used a robot with an attached fire hose to knock a gun from the suspect and disorient him.
I would have preferred the police had captured this guy so it would go to trial. But I can't say that using the bomb was the wrong course of action.
“Robot Used to Catch, Disarm Man.” Spartanburg Herald-Journal. 4 September 1993. Web. 25 September 2012. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19930903&id=HtYpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I88EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6809,1107111
Everyone in Nashville knew this. Dude got arrested 20 years ago looking for some strange dick in a park.
This sign was produced as a novelty during the 1960's and 1970's.
Here is an article from the <strong>Schenectady Gazette - Mar 22, 1973</strong> that makes reference to a story in Playboy magazine that mentions the same sign hanging outside the Beth El Medical Center.
For those interested, here is a link to the complete article.
There have apparently been 37,000 articles written about it in the past 24 hours. Okay that was a little higher than I'd been expecting..
This bulletin is from the Milwaukee Journal on March 18, 1922. Other headlines include:
- Gets ten days for selling wife six times
- Made hootch from garbage, agents claim
- Al Lea, Windy City Bowler, hits 690 mark
- Perils of Marriage less fearsome today than ever before
- Scientist tells of ghost hunting machine
I think I prefer the news of yesteryear as opposed to our current news system :-/
IMPORTANT NOTE TO OP
This doll is actually called "Baby Spank Me." If you look here you will see a Sears ad from 1965 for the doll. It has a picture that is exactly what you described and what your pictures show.
There is a newspaper article here from 1966 that references Baby Spank Me, and here are multiple letters to Santa requesting one.
(sorry to grab on to your thread, tjblue, I figured this was the best way to make sure the OP sees it.)
TIL you can read 70 year-old newspapers on Google News. Cool.
Edit: behold, <em>The Columbian Herald</em>, Thursday, August 28, <strong>1738</strong>. This is so fucking cool.
That's the oldest one there seems to be there, but there's plenty of others from the 1700s and the 1800s. You can check all of them on their site.
Edit 2: that paper seems to be actually from 1788 and not 1738 as Google says, but this one is definitely from 1752.
Each living Medal of Honor Recipient.
Big difference there.
Edit: Despite what Wikipedia says, "each" is correct.
It's not an actual quote from the judge.
"If this were a 29-year-old male and a 17-year-old female, I would be inclined to order some incarceration", said 3rd District Judge Mark Kouris during Cameo Patch's sentencing hearing. "Why is this different than that?"
"
It was a response to the defense saying that the teacher should face no charges, to which the defense explained that the boy initiated the sexual tryst and lied to Patch saying he was 18.
When I was in the second grade one of our janitors walked into the crowded lunchroom full of kids and shot another janitor in the head with a rifle. Initially we all thought someone had popped a lunch bag until we saw the dead janitor fall off the stage into a huge, rapidly expanding pool of blood.
Here's one where a boy survived 45 minutes
Now we only need to look for a story that goes 3 hours and 15 minutes further, we're doing progress.
Whatever the daily "Top Story" of AMA is, I've found that the chances of it being trolling is amazingly high. HOT TOPIC, lots of comments by OP to bump the thread, no way to find anything in news archives... name like wronglyaccused or the InnocentTeacher troll from a few days ago... not good signs :)
anyhow:
Q: What was the legal grounds you had to sue the family? A: "They knew about her confession to the therapist and didn't report it. Sued under emotional damages"
Q: Is the therapist the one that turned the girl in? A: "Yes"
Q: How long after the initial accusation was this confession to the therapist? A: "Almost 5 years." and... "She also confessed to her therapist back during the trial, but that therapist didn't come forward."
So the family loses a 6 figure settlement because they didn't "report the therapist"?? which one, the therapist that reported her 5 years later? but of course he can't sue the actual therapist because "The law gets murky and it could cost me way more than I'd ever recover. Not worth it."
OK I call bullshit regarding any successful lawsuit alleging that mom and dad MUST report their own daughter (mentally unstable), based on their understanding of what she did at a therapist, while that therapist reported her anyhow, and who himself apparently did nothing wrong according to the law.
More importantly, this all happened 7 years ago, with the DRAMATIC exoneration within the last couple years, and...
> It was a big big local story (lots of lurid details, so the local news went apeshit)... The media made me out to be a monster
Here's the AMAZINGLY THOROUGH AND COMPLETE GOOGLE NEWS ARCHIVE. Yes the so-called "local news" is in it. Many internets to anyone who can find one freaking sign of this amazing story.
Not a direct answer to your question, but here is an article from 1980 about the proposal by Robert Pound (very prominent Harvard physicists, just died in 2010) to use microwaves for residential heating. I realize this doesn't answer the question of how much heating you would feel near a standard kitchen microwave oven, but it is worth knowing about if you're interested in this question.
The News & Weather app is a essentially just http://news.google.com in app form. While the Newsstand app shows some of the same content, it's fundamentally different in how it operates.
If you want to argue that News & Weather is redundant, it's been redundant since the beginning as you can just put a Chrome bookmark to http://news.google.com on your home screen. I personally like the News & Weather app and have been a daily user for years.
Its aprotest against south floridas orwellian vagrancy laws. There was a 90 yo man arrested for giving a meal to a homeless man recently.
Check out this 1969 article entitled "verdict" for reference
First of all I think we can safely ignore the Shakespeare claims which the internet is full of, Shakespeare does have the lines 'Knock Knock. Who's there?' In Macbeth, but since what follow does not seem to be a punch line or a play on words this is very unlikely to be the origin of the joke. I would not however rule out the possibility that the earliest versions were parodies or pastiches of this famous scene.
The earliest print reference I can find cited for recognisable knock knock jokes is from 1929 when the formula is included in the book 'The Games of Children: Their Origin and History' by Henry Betts. It's described as being part of a parlour game called 'buff'. Betts describes the game as being new to him, so it's possible that the actual origin date was around that time.
By 1936 a Pennsylvania Newspaper is reporting on the growing popularity of knock knock jokes, the article explains the joke format to the readers which indicates that it hasn't really hit mainstream culture by this point.
By the 1950s knock knock jokes are appearing in other English speaking countries outside the US and in other languages, given the timing it seems likely that the format could have been spread by American soldiers during WWII and by the emerging mass broadcast media.
And a bit of silliness. My favourite one as a child:
Knock Knock
Who's there?
Dish washer.
Dish washer who?
Dish washn't the way I shpoke before I got falsh teef.
Geologist here, yes, it has been suggested.
Sorry, I'm sure there are better links, but it's late.
>"Bernie alienates his natural allies," he said. "He is completely ineffective as a lobbyist because he offends just about everyone. His holier-than-thou attitude - saying in a very loud voice he is smarter than everyone else and purer than everyone else - really undercuts his effectiveness," said Frank. “To him, anybody who disagrees with him is a crook; there are no honest disagreements with people. Bernie's view of the world is that the great majority of the people agree with him on all the issues and the only reason he does not win is that the Congress is crooked."
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vqJJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Xg0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=4293%2C3641940
Fun fact - heads of state's health is a closely gaurded secret to the point that the President's poop is frozen and stored aboard Airforce One until he returns to the US where it is destroyed. MI6 and the CIA dedicated significant resources to obtaining a stool sample from Gorbachev and eventually succeeded I believe.
1970s: THE ARABS ARE BUYING UP ALL OF AMERICA!
1980s: THE JAPANESE ARE BUYING UP ALL OF AMERICA!
1990s: THE ARABS ARE BUYING UP ALL OF AMERICA, AGAIN!
2000s: THE AMERICANS ARE BUYING UP ALL OF AMERICA!
2010s: THE CHINESE ARE BUYING UP ALL OF AMERICA!
I was friends with (and worked with) the Penn State HUB Shooter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzel_Union_Building_shooting Jillian was a great person, but was clinically diagnosed with several mental illnesses. She was in the Army Reserve, and had won marksmanship awards. She was a very good artist. I wish I had an original one of her drawings- I only have a poster from one of her art displays. I actually heard the shots- I was in downtown State College when it happened, and thought it sounded like someone dropping boards onto the pavement. The bullet found on the eighth floor of Penn Tower was lodged in the window frame of my close friend's brother's apartment. He slept through the whole thing.
I was in boy scouts with this guy- http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19890315&id=hsYyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d2MEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5148,8826288 He raped a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old, slit their throats, and dumped them, still alive, over a hill on a backwoods road.
And this guy-
http://www.yourpenntrafford.com/penntraffordstar/article/former-area-resident-pleads-guilty-fatal-04-trafford-stabbing
was my best friend from age 3 until around 6th grade. He was just a bad seed, and I was on the receiving end of his evil many times, but at least I lived through it.
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You're wrong. Here's another source:
http://iraq4allnews.dk/ShowNews.php?id=31174
100 bodies have been found. It cites reports by the Iraqi security forces. The interior minister even acknowledge the bodies. Whats in dispute is not that these kids were killed, but why they were killed.
Whoops. Heres about a dozen more sites that have picked it up.
You are correct, I linked a different person killed in a similar fashion by the same ride 6 years later.Here is the story of the man who was kicked to death by a passenger. Also six flags kills the hell out of people, I work at a major theme park and the only death we've had was when a guest shot themselves.
Incredibly good read. The ending was expected but wow.
When I was much younger, I looked up to too many wrong people and ended up getting disappointed over little things. Funny comedians whose stand up shows I'd watch on TV, not being quite as clean as I was used to. Little disappointments, really.
I can't imagine how incredibly horrifying that could be.
Edit: I wanted to make sure this was real and not some Chuck Palahniuk type article. Here's an article from his conviction: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19800724&id=J4RRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BRIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3700,3909384
It hasn't been ignored by the mainstream media, I don't know what the fuck you people keep going on about here. What the hell do you want, the networks to suspend all commercials and advertising just like they did when 9/11 happened so they can cover one single story every waking second for days and days?
Take a look at this list here of media outlets covering the Occupy Wall Street protests. Do you recognize any of those? Are the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Associated Press, Sky News, Reuters, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, CBC, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, FOX News, and many, many more mainstream enough for you? You must all be reverse news hipsters; nothing covering the story is mainstream enough for you all.
At the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1965 there was a snowball fight that ended in a riot and three deaths.
Article isn't horribly accurate. Here is a much better one.
Entrekin lost his leg, but an officer with a shotgun charged Peterson while he was reloading. One of the shots nearly took Peterson's foot off. they amputated the foot at the hospital later.
It wasn't a coincident there was a crossword puzzle maker (whatever you would call them) he would give kids these mental exercises where he would give them blank crossword puzzles and they would fill in the descriptions after. He would then take these and incorporate them into his crossword puzzles. Well one of the kids spent a lot of time around US and Canadian soldiers and he would overhear them using these code names and put them into the crossword puzzle mental exercise which the puzzle maker then put into the newspaper so although it wasn't intentional it wasn't like he picked these words out of no where.
Applies to how the kid overheard the big mouthed soldiers: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_F9gILlK7c8/T0Wl6xXL8dI/AAAAAAAADg8/SrfJ1xFiQsc/s1600/HesWatchingYou-WW2+Propaganda+Poster.jpg
For the Chargers, a couple of names come to mind:
Craig "Bust(er)" Davis - Drafted 30th overall in the 2007 draft, signed a 5 year, 11$ million dollar contract, had a decent rookie year and then got hurt and never played another down for us until he was released in 2011. His teammate at LSU, Dwayne Bowe, still plays for the Chiefs.
Larry "AJ Smith has lost his magic" English - A massive reach at 16th overall in the 2009 NFL draft, English has been a bust his entire career. Let me list the names of players taken after English who have turned into the kind of pass rushers we were hoping to get out of him: Robert Ayers, Clay Matthews, Michael Johnson, etc. etc. (not to mention the non-pass rushers we passed on). English has 11 sacks in FIVE YEARS of injury-plagued play, and yet we're giving him another chance for just over a million dollars this year. No fucking idea why.
Antoine "~~Lockdown Corner~~" Cason - Taken 27th overall in 2008, Cason is only looked upon in a less dim light because the secondary that replaced him last season was HISTORICALLY bad, but it still doesn't excuse taking a guy who wound up burned so many times in the secondary THAT high in the draft (especially with Brandon Flowers still on the board, what the fuck AJ Smith)
Sammy "The Rat Pack singer would have made a better DB" Davis - And HERE is the argument for why you shouldn't always trade down. The Chargers, at 15, could have taken Troy Polamalu, and THEN when they moved back to 30, could have taken Nnamdi Asomugha. But nope, instead AJ Smith took the guy whose biggest contribution to football, according to wikipedia, was developing a system for players to drink water on the field. Fucking wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Three days later the psychoanalyst asked permission to go to hell.
"Why?" asked St. Peter.
"I cannot do my work," said the psychoanalyst. "I found Julius Caesar quite reasonable. Napoleon was hard to handle, but he has come out fine. now there is one fellow who is incurable. I don't know what to do with him. He is completely mad. I am leaving."
"What's his name?" asked St. Peter.
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt!"
Lots of ignorance in this thread. People dismissive of the idea that legal and extralegal harassment of the black community in Portland has a history that goes well into the 21st century really need to study up on the institutional assaults that the community has undergone.
http://www.ohs.org/research/quarterly/upload/2014-joel-palmer-winner.pdf
Because ESPN can dictate what news is.
7 AM: "Wilson wants to be best ever"
7:30 AM: have Mike and Mike discuss the chances
9 AM: Trot out Jaws with a contrarian opinion (say, Kaep will challenge him for title) using unnamed sources
12 PM: other media outlets pick up quotes used by Jaws
2 PM: Wilson goes on ESPN owned radio, is asked about being best ever and if Kaep can catch him
4 PM: breakdown of Wilson vs. Kaep
*edit: See what I mean? A Google News search of "Russell Wilson best ever" yields 123 articles that have picked this up so far.
> In 1992 she took her own life, although she was already 90, by overdosing on sleeping pills.
The reports of her committing suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills are not well founded from what I can see. By the time she died, she had suffered a stroke and was almost entirely immobile. She could move her hand (her arm, not so much) and she could only utter three words..."yes", "no", and "Maria".
The suicide story was probably a misinterpretation of her daughter theorizing that her mother had committed a "protracted suicide" by abusing alcohol and sleeping pills for many of her later years.
Edit: typo repair
Since we're in <em>Old School Cool</em> mode, I found this 1972 newspaper article:
> The young congressman, who told voters to remember his Greek name by recalling "it starts with a Gal and ends with a kiss," ... blah blah...
Serena and Venus were 16 and 17 at the time. I would have liked to see that match when they were 24 & 25.
The National Organization for Women -- the largest women's rights organization in the country -- has opposed this policy literally for decades. They oppose the draft as an institution, but argue that so long as selective service exists women should be subjected to it as well. This shit is a mainstream position of academic feminists; excluding women from areas of social and political life, regardless of whether or not participation in those areas is desirable, is ultimately gender discrimination against both men and women.
Woops. Sorry to interrupt your ignorant bullshitting!
Jesus fucking Christ Reddit is stupid.
Why do I hate religion?
Not just because it allows for ignorance- allows people to accept the 'easy answer' and not push onwards.
Not just because it allows for stagnation, not trying to better oneself because of the promise of 'pie in the sky'.
Not just because it keeps people down, for fear of being 'smitten'.
But because it normalises hate. It allows for such vitriol.
8+ children, dead- and these are not only responses posted, but 'liked' by so many people?
What kind of world is this. No product of heavenly design for sure- it's often in the religious that I see the best evidence that we've all evolved from squabbling, bitter, angry apes, with barely enough braincells to rub together.
Source
She is no longer a state senator. This story is from 2001. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=20010929&id=DJJXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=evIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6914,6186106
But yes, that's crazy.
She's a piece of work. She was an assistant district attorney in Fulton county, GA. She used to brag that she never lost a case. If you look closer, however, you'd learn that she'd have fire sale on questionable cases and offer unreasonable plea offers on easy-to-prove cases, thereby ensuring plea bargains on cases she would have difficulty winning at trial and forcing trials on cases she would be sure to win. Even with all that, she would get smacked down by the appellate court for downright illegal and unethical behaviors to secure convictions. There were some strongly worded rebukes in the courts' opinions over the years.
Let it also not be forgotten that the torture dungeons were being run in Iraq, and that CNN knew for 12 years, and didn't tell us. Wait, why do we trust those lying a-holes?
The dickhead in question also permanently brain damaged a man in the 90s by crashing into him, while going 2-3x the speed limit.
premiums have been seeing double didgit increases since before the health care law.
you cant lay blame of your increases on HCR.
the fact that premiums have been going up much faster than inflation IS ONE OF THE REASONS FOR THE HEALTH CARE LAW.
quick google from 2004,premiums on average going up in double digit numbers for four years.
this is years before HCR.
It was intended to buy time, mostly.
Japan didn't expect the US to want to commit to a drawn out war in the Pacific, but felt that war with the US was inevitable (the US had stopped trading oil with them in July and FDR moved the fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, among other things; a poll found that a majority of Americans felt war was inevitable), especially if it hoped to realize its plans for southeast Asia and the Philippines. By crippling the Pacific fleet with a single decisive attack, Japan hoped to prevent the US from assuming a dominant position in the Pacific from the get go. The thinking was that a relatively isolated and neutral US would rather surrender the Philippines than get drawn into the war if it wasn't positioned to win quickly.
Even if the US did commit to a longer war, the Japanese hoped that the attack would buy time and allow them to entrench their position in SE Asia and begin utilizing the raw materials and resources that the region would grant them. Japan hoped that, if the US did decide to commit to a drawn out conflict, the attack would delay the US until Japan was ready.
edit: for clarity, the poll linked was conducted just before the attack on Pearl Harbor, but published afterwards.
You found something? I found nothing besides this caption which says he is a wrestler.
edit: No here he is at wrestlingdata.com. He was also apparently a travelling acrobatic performer.
Article on the party from 1972. Run-of-the-mill crazy indulgent rich person fare
Surely you mean the Ayatollah Khomeini, not the Shah. While the Shah might have been oppressive, the entire motive behind the Islamic Revolution was to reverse his westernizing influence. Plus, he played tennis himself.
Proof of a tennis playing monarch!
Edit: Mansour Bahrami's website confirms the Ayatollah as a tennis-hater.
You should read about Milan Svec, the second-ranking official of the Czech embassy in the US. He defected in 1985.
The story of Igor Gouzenko might also interest you. He defected from the Soviet embassy in Canada in 1945.
Sources:
Svec L.A.Times: Czech Embassy's No. 2 Official Defects to U.S., Receives Asylum http://articles.latimes.com/1985-07-12/news/mn-8858_1_political-asylum
Gouzenko Toledo Blade: Soviet defector believed beginner of Cold War http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19841225&id=Pg0wAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ygIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6816,4400247 Wikipedia: Igor Gouzenko http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Gouzenko
I've been here for 4 years as well (account for 3 of them).
It's subtle things. As an example, the intellectual comments moved to r/askscience, and all the silly joke answers go to ask reddit. But in the past few months, a bunch of joke answers are poping up on r/askscience.
The same goes for the rest of reddit. It was never immune to the silly jokes, that's what made it so fun. It's now that the silly jokes make up the focus of reddit. It's hard to define what is part of "reddit' so i'll just asy it's the front page, r/all RIGHT NOW we have (in order as of 1:52 am est) * silly cartoon explainign pancakes (picture)
preaching to the choir about being gay is fine (picture)
circle jerk post (at least they're honest)
witty original comic about chewwie (picture)
meme generator comic (picture)
standard preaching to the choir about anti-tea party (self)
dating (picture)
buffet (picture),
rabbit (picture)
rage (picture)
silly video
rage (picture)
rage (picture)
and many, many more pictures from assorted subreddits. The only non-picture/video/self circle jerk post, is all the way at # 29 (pro lesbian). then another article at #50 (Anti cop post)....
I suppose "front page of the internet" makes sense, since front pages are sensationalist, contain lots of pictures, and you have only a few articles to deal with. If you want to know what's going on with the internet, http://news.google.com/
I don't have much of a focused point, i just want to ramble.
This has nothing to do with ignorance, but it does illustrate why aid workers, journalists, medical professionals, etc MUST stay neutral in conflict zones. The CIA used fake vaccine campaigns in their efforts to track Bin Laden, apparently without success, and now locals are (justifiably) suspicious of vaccine teams. This was completely predictable. In fact, it was predicted:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/
A similar betrayal of battlefield norms is one of the (many many many) reasons that journalists hate Geraldo Rivera. He was caught carrying a firearm in Afghanistan in the early days of the war while working as a correspondent.
If people abuse or manipulate the expectations of neutrality for non-combatants in warzones, it only makes life more difficult for other people trying to do their jobs in difficult conditions.
Information about Roemer from the previous IAMA courtesy of user Pilebsa:
He switched parties after he was elected governor of Louisiana. The people voted for a democrat, then he became a republican. Buddy Roemer campaigned on making education a priority, then he spent most of his time bringing in video poker to the state instead. Louisiana had the only gambling deal in the nation at the time with no specific money earmarked to stuff like education. Roemer was so bad he ended up losing to one of the most corrupt politicians in modern history, Edwin Edwards (who just recently got out of prison) and David Duke, ex-KKK neo-nazi white supremecist. Yes that's right, Buddy Roemer couldn't even get in a runoff against a KKK imperial grand wizard as an incumbant seeking re-election!
In all likelihood, his anti-PAC, tiny-contributor stance is merely circumstantial. He has sold out so many times he has no real allies on either side and nobody wants to give him money, so he's repackaged that as some kind of idealistic stance.
Here in Louisiana, whenever I see some old lady pouring her money into those annoying video poker machines, I think of Roemer. That's his legacy. And we still have one of the shittiest educational systems in the nation. I worked on his campaign because I respected his desire to want to make education a priority. That turned out to be a sham.
Edit: Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Roemer
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TjQdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5904,3378123
I will write in Donald Trump if the GOPe rig the election. The criminal establishment of both parties can burn in hell. Traitors! http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-warns-ofeconomic-fallout-if-congress-passes-9-11-bill.html?_r=0&referer=http://news.google.com/
Does actually look like he was at fault here: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1907&dat=19910823&id=43hhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5dkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5348,6368461
I see a lot of these "X famous person/relative killed/injured N people in traffic" stories and it was really largely the deceased/injured party's fault, this does't necessarily look like the case.
No. >The Allies had abolished Prussia after the defeat of Germany in 1945, believing it to be the source of the nation's aggression. In 1943, Churchill said "the core of Germany is Prussia. There is the source of the recurring pestilence." (source)
>So this is my own satirical take on the matter, as well as on the evil, corruptive force that has been affecting Poland all these years.
>Prussia has the flag of the Free State of Prussia from 1933-1945. Poland is holding a corn poppy, its national flower.
No, but it was allowed by the court
"The mountaineer testified he tried to "get her in an orphanage" But failed. It was then that he married her"
Here, but the pics are proof enough. Those who doubt it can just ignore the post. There's no need to spread more personal information around than necessary -- you may have heard there are some pretty crazy people out there, and your brother did consider privacy of both the attacker and, by only showing his back, himself.
On the other hand, if it was in the newspaper, it's already out there anyway.
I thought "this can't be true", but after Googling around a bit, it does seem mostly true.
In the 50s and 60s quite a few candidates talked about "saving taxpayer money", but mostly in the context of government waste, not direct talk about cutting the voters' taxes.
However... cutting taxes was a central theme of Goldwater's '64 run. Which sort of agrees with your point anyway, considering how influential Goldwater's run was on Reagan.
Humphrey also promised to help states to lower state, local, and property taxes, and Nixon said in '72 that his top priority was to keep down prices and taxes. Ford did something similar. So you can trace the roots back to Goldwater in '64, rather than Nixon in '80, but your point is still right.
Troops in 'nam respond: "Suck this joint down, patrol is in 10 minutes!"
Then go earn a MoH while high. Source: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19710617&id=mLAzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uTIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=5325,7025759
>"The super collider's dead, the taxpayers have saved $10 billion and I think that's good news for the American public" said Rep. Jim Slattery, the Kansas Democrat who orchestrated the anti-collider House campaign
I hate to be a nay-sayer because I'm really enjoying reading this, but there's nothing on the New Zealand Police news website even thought they have other posts from today, and a Google News search for both 'New Zealand standoff' and New Zealand Armed Offenders shows nothing. There should be something from a local news site, if not from the NZPD.
He is mistaken. A. L. Kahn had the captured manta then stuffed and hung it up for exhibition.
This appeared in many newspapers in 1933-1934
>But the star of the exhibition is a local luminary - a 5,000-pound devi fish that proves New York's most amazing fish story.
>While getting ready to fish for porgy several miles offshore, A. L. Kahn, a manufacturer, tossed an anchor from his small motorboat. The anchor went down and down - and right into one of the gills of the giant Manta. After a battle of several hours a coast guard vessel came along and hoisted Kahn, his motorboat and the devil-fish aboard and brought them to port. Kahn (now Captain Kahn) had the creature stuffed and became a showman. Says it beats the manufacturing business all hollow.
within the article there's a link to the original newspaper story.
After Ray Allen says that the script says Denzel's character is not supposed to score, Spike tells him "I don't care what the script says". To which Ray replies, "It's on now."
Sorry, it was Apollo 15. Deseret News, Sept. 18, 1971.
Also, here's a page with good sources on what President Smith said and how and when.
Except he's definitely using the Justice Department resources to circumvent state MM laws.
Nothing has changed, the raids are actually more frequent than ever.
What are you talking about? It's like you watched TV for 5 minutes -- or read a single article -- and because they didn't mention the word "revolution" in that brief window you assume (because the "major" media is defective, I guess) that they are "avoiding" the term. Or you think that because they're also referred to as protesters attending rallies that somehow undoes all the times their collective actions are labelled revolution?
The "major" media outlets are not avoiding it. That assertion is false.
From smaller outlets to big ones, the term "revolution" -- along with "revolt" -- is being used extensively. They've even branded the whole shebang as the "Jasmine revolution" (as they did with the "Orange" revolution ~5 years back) as an indication of how widespread the movement is in the region.
This is just some easy karma-harvesting, taking advantage of an easy and universally-maligned target, the "major" media.
It was the end of a Civil War, so I'm pretty sure everything the government did was considered all-consuming. This paper had no headlines in massive print. This is the front page.
Same way they got it up there... cranes that have an 81 ton lifting capacity.
Just do a regular Google search for the name, though - there could be local news articles. You can also do a news-specific search at http://news.google.com.
(You're not using his internet for any of this research, hopefully?)
If she managed to fall headfirst, she could still die. A few years back an NYPD cop tasered a naked guy, who went rigid and fell, forehead first, onto the sidewalk (and died).
Extra-depressing sidenote: eight days later, the taser cop killed himself.
I recall hearing about a Syracuse suicide where a lady went head-first off the third floor and landed, 18 meters later, on the ground floor. That's a lot higher than any of these examples - but I'm sure she would have had similar success from the second story.
As of 1984, 88 deaths were documented. Freeman himself makes 89. I am quite confident that the number was over 100, but don't have the documentation that would pass /r/askhistorians muster.
Kid I went to high school with snapped one day and shot his mom, dad, and his brother. Here's the story.
The only interaction I had with him was at a New Year's party, when he put snow on my neck to help me feel better after I threw up everywhere.
Top portion is from a July 12, 1992 Toledo Blade article (on the right side).
Article right below it is pretty good too:
>My favorite involves Johnny Most, the Boston Celtics' gravel-voiced announcer. Most had been complaining of deafness for months. It is a condition fans of other teams might temporarily prefer if they heard Most rant about how his Celtics are being shafted.
>The Celtics' team physician examined Most and told him he was indeed having hearing problems. Most said he sure could hear the doctor better. The doctor told Most that's because he extracted an earplug that had been lodged in Most's right ear for a year.
But it isn't. This is the captured Manta A. L. Kahn had stuffed for exhibition. See Link
Edit: This appeared in many newspapers in 1933-1934
>But the star of the exhibition is a local luminary - a 5,000-pound devi fish that proves New York's most amazing fish story.
>While getting ready to fish for porgy several miles offshore, A. L. Kahn, a manufacturer, tossed an anchor from his small motorboat. The anchor went down and down - and right into one of the gills of the giant Manta. After a battle of several hours a coast guard vessel came along and hoisted Kahn, his motorboat and the devil-fish aboard and brought them to port. Kahn (now Captain Kahn) had the creature stuffed and became a showman. Says it beats the manufacturing business all hollow.
I went to elementary school with a girl whose parents won. Would have been around...1987. They ended up divorced within a year or two.
~~ETA: Just called my mom to get the name. Can't find anything via Google connecting them to the game, though. Seems like they really didn't publicize the winners.~~
Apparently he was the first winner of the contest and his actual prize was $1000/week for life. I wonder how that's going.
Jan 31, 1950, George Mikan voted greatest player of last 50 years.
Feb 9, 1986, Kareem voted greatest player ever.
It is part of the prestigious Bettmann Collection of Corbis Images. Here is another angle.
Virginia Tech
It's one of those games that really should be more of a thing, considering how close the two schools are together.
Although, if we're talking about opponents we play on a semi-regular basis, UCLA comes to mind. Wouldn't mind a trip out west every other year. There's even a bit of bad blood if you go back far enough.
The concern with saccharine safety in the past was that it was shown to cause bladder cancer in rats in studies in the early 1970s.. It came with a warning label for some time, although it wasn't conclusively linked to bladder cancer in humans.
News report of the warning label: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=moBFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-LwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6480,3710197&dq=saccharin+warning&hl=en
Later scientists found the cause of bladder cancer in rats. Rats have high Ph levels, higher levels of proteins, and higher levels of calcium phosphate in their urine. Saccharin would bind with calcium phosphate and one or more proteins in rats urine, and form crystals that damaged the lining of the bladder. Since said proteins are not present in humans, there is no elevated bladder cancer risk.
Steve was this guy that lived a block away from me. We rode the same school bus, were in the same Scout troop, and delivered newspapers together. We weren't friends, but we knew each other pretty well.
One night, he took a buddy to a local shopping center. They found two girls at the video arcade, and asked if they wanted to go for a ride. They went back to Steve's house, and Steve took one girl up to his room while the other stayed downstairs with the buddy. After a while, Steve came down and told the other girl that her friend wanted to see her upstairs. She went up.
A bit later, Steve came and got his buddy, saying he "Needed Help with something." The guy goes upstairs to find the two girls in the bathtub with their throats slashed.
The guy runs out of the house, but Steve catches up to him down the street, and begs him to get in the truck. They go to a remote road known for illegal dumping, and drop the girls, wrapped in trash bags, over the hillside.
Steve was 19. The girls were 12 and 13. He was spared the death penalty because he had been "Badly influenced by his poor upbringing, and from listening to Heavy Metal Music."
Hundreds of less shitty news sites on the subject. I don't know why people keep posting gawker bullshit here.
>Cattle walking the last mile to this slaughterhouse are treated to this dazzling, but incongruous display of light before the end in Gross-Umstadt near Darmstadt, West Germany, on November 29, 1962. The chandelier came from a nearby factory that didn't have room to assemble it there, so they decided to assemble it in this slaughterhouse. The name of the Arab ruler who ordered the 532 bulb chandelier made up of 200,000 separate parts is a secret. Also, a secret is the price he paid for it.
Edit1:
Found this in The Milwaukee Journal Feb 13 1963
>Fancy Lights For A Slaughterhouse
>This incongruous scene-a bull and exptionally fancy chandelier-was at a slaughterhouse in Gross Umstadt, West Germany. The firm that made the chandlier-three and a half tons and with 532 bulbs-stored it at the packing house pending shipment. It is to be installed at a new ballroom